OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Current Sociology is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Importation for comparison as apparatus: Israeli prime ministers and their political strategies of memorialization	36
Farewell to genre: Plot, meaning, and eudaemonic paths in social narratives	23
Editing at the end of the Soviet empire	22
Ticket inspectors use emotion displays of sympathy and dominance to manage status dynamics in passenger encounters	18
Reconnecting to the social: Ontological foundations for a repurposed and rescaled SIA	16
Spectacularising narratives on femicide in South Africa: A decolonial feminist analysis	15
Ordinary consumption in extra-ordinarily small homes: Acquisition, storage and decluttering practices of micro-apartment residents	14
‘Being old’ and ‘feeling old’ in contemporary Italy: Active ageing and COVID-19	14
Navigating intimate practices under the spectre of familial dementia	14
Narratives of institutional trust: Turkish migrants’ comparative perspectives in Germany and Türkiye	14
Classes in transition: Intergenerational family trajectories and forced migration in historical context	13
The dilemma of constitutional mobilization: The housing and the environmental social movements at the Chilean Constitutional Convention	13
Why and how lifestyle change to reduced consumption is an active part of the emerging sustainability transformation	12
Digital home-lessness: Exploring the links between public Internet access, technological capital, and social inequality	12
Beyond Hamsters’ syndrome	11
Guiding distinctions of social theory: Results from two online brainstormings and one quantitative analysis of the ISA Books of the XX Century corpus	11
Social-constructivist and figurational biographical research	10
The power of a look: Tracing webs of power in intimate partner violence through an everyday act	9
Enchanted realism: Representations of self-fulfilment among Italian youth after the pandemic	9
Millennial femininity and the harmonious state of mind	8
Fluid yet sticky? Exploring social class through the lens of transnational migration	8
Education as care labor: Expanding our lens on the work-life balance problem	8
Innovation in economic evolution: Reintroducing Schumpeterian thought to current advances in economic sociology	8
The social space of Italian leading sociology journals: A network and field-theoretic analysis of sociologists’ interlocking editorships	8
On the cult of the individual: The Quantified Self public gatherings, self-tracking, and individualism	7

Caste, gender, race: Signposts of a feminist anti-caste approach	7
Imaginative labor and embodied cognition: Economic sociology as a cognitive science	7
On the monopoly of violence: Ideal types of settler colonial violence and the habitus of sumud	6
Being a woman or being a mathematician: Self and external perceptions of female early career researchers in a mathematical cluster of excellence	6
A value turn in sociology	6
LGBT+ ballroom dancers and their shoes: Fashioning the queer self into existence	6
Public perceptions of climate change during the COVID-19 crisis: Evidence from social media data in China	6
What is femicide? The United Nations and the measurement of progress in complex epistemic systems	6
Racial residential patterns in Singapore: What happens after the implementation of racial quotas in public housing?	6
Femtech apps and quantification of the reproductive body in India: Issues and concerns	6
The single-mother ghost-father family: Perspectives of single women choosing posthumous reproduction, a preliminary study	6
Race and/or caste: What is at stake?	6
Reflections of a Monographs editor	5
‘I feel like I’m yours, but I’m not yours’: Three accounts to interpret an idiosyncratic form of dating and romantic relationship among young female college students in South Korea	5
Sociology of values or sociology of morality?	5
Exploring equity in social impact assessment	5
Durable despite tension: Adult sibling relationships within family figurations	5
Challenging the sociological canon: An analysis of theoretical practices in Norwegian sociology	5
Editors’ foreword to the 70th anniversary volume	5
Can a colonial flag become a banner for democracy? The Case of the Dragon and Lion flag and the 2019 Hong Kong protests	5
Southern theory, knowledge production and Russia’s war in Ukraine: An interview with Raewyn Connell	4
‘. . . You are a Muslim, and our village disapproves of this’: The objections of indigenous minority communities in Israel to women’s employment in the police on grounds of gender, nationality and cri	4
Everyday utopias and social reproduction	4
Reframing the social acceptance of mining projects: The contribution of social impact assessment in the Brazilian Amazon	4
Unpacking the global climate politics-to-local nexus: Renewables, community struggles, and social impacts	4
Diasporic multiculturalism	4
‘No way. You will not make [insert country here] home’: Anti-asylum discursive transfer from Australia to Europe	4
Home care for profit: Intermediary agencies and digital platforms brokering migrant women’s labour in Spain	4
Why broker novel concepts into economic sociology? Transcending the New Economic Sociology	4
Giving and receiving: Gendered service work in academia	4
Passing and telling: Israeli Arabized soldiers	4
The impact of COVID 19 in Argentina and Chile’s informal settlement: Populous habitats and ways of living in times of crisis	4
Re-imagining the measurement of femicide: From ‘thin’ counts to ‘thick’ counts	4
An emerging military-industrial-nonprofit complex? Exploring conscripted volunteering in Israel	4
After 50 years of social impact assessment, is it still fit for purpose?	4
Analysing homophobia, xenophobia and sexual nationalisms in Africa: Comparing quantitative attitudes data to reveal societal differences	3
Ideal types’ strategies related to handling early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: A thematic analysis of comments from an international survey	3
Examining distrust of science and scientists: A study on ideology and scientific literacy in the European Union	3
On the importance of taking risks	3
Promoting mindfulness in education: Scientisation, psychology and epistemic capital	3
Complex innovation, organizations, and fields: Toward the organized transformation of today’s innovation societies	3
Is ethics a Utopia? Yes, when moral distinctions impair the ethical aim	3
Creativity and the collective Renaissance: A hermeneutic-imaginary approach	3
Primitive social theory: On the history of the ‘primitive concept’ in sociology and its applications under post-digital modernity	3
What is left unsaid: Omissions in biographical narratives	3
Entrapped subjects: Disciplinary techniques in China’s multi-level marketing organizations	3
‘Why give birth to many children when you cannot take care of them?’ Determinants of family size among dual-earner couples in Ghana	3
The semiosis and the market: Peirce’s semiotics for economic sociology	3
Police violence, corrupt cops, and the repudiation of stigma among underclass residents in Mexico City	3
Military social harm: An agenda for research	2

Publisher’s Note	2
The necessary confluence of sociology and social impact assessment in the era of global change	2
Social media and social impact assessment: Evolving methods in a shifting context	2
Challenging the protest paradigm and winning legitimacy. Analysis of the representation of the social movement against femicide in the mainstream media in Mexico	2
Friends against capitalism: Constructive resistance and friendship compliance in worker cooperatives	2
Racism and sexism during pandemic times: Experiences, narratives, and coping mechanisms among Chinese women in the Netherlands	2
Seven years passed	2
The production of counter-space: Informal labour, social networks and the production of urban space in Dhaka	2
Neo-colonial narratives in modern migration: Housing practices and class dynamics of Indian migrants in Frankfurt a.M	2
‘Put me on to a male agent’: Emotional labor and performing gender in call centers	2
Streamlining social impact assessment and disaster risk assessment for the 21st century – Perspectives from South Africa	2
The state and the clinic: Migrant narratives in Italy’s healthcare system	2
Scapegoating queers: Pink-blocking as state strategy	2
Race and caste in the making of US sociology	2
Reciprocity, trust and conflict: Volunteers and refugees in rural Germany	2
Narratives of acceptance in men’s journeys of hair loss: Identity reconstruction, masculinities and competing pressures	2
Family formation and health-related behavior: The case of meal skipping	2
The intellectual biography of Syed Farid Alatas: Hegemonic orientations, epistemic decolonisation and the School of Autonomous Knowledge	2
Race, caste and colonialism	2
Looking at human-centered artificial intelligence as a problem and prospect for sociology: An analytic review	1
Environmental anomie and the disruption of physical norms during disaster	1
Becoming a young radical right activist: Biographical pathways of the members of radical right organisations in Poland and Germany	1
Planned meetings: Multiplicity, boxed-in dialogues, and deliberative bureaucracy as social form	1
If unequal, don’t change it? The inequality-redistribution puzzle among political elites	1
Social media as a means of visual biographical performance and biographical work	1
A sociological genealogy of transcendence	1
Disabled youth participation within activism and social movement bases: An empirical investigation of the UK Disabled People’s Movement	1
Excluding themselves from development? Carework as a discursive resource for women farmers in Ethiopia	1
Privilege and discrimination in identity politics: ‘Guiding Distinctions’ as a tool for analyzing social inequality	1
Exploring biographical case reconstructions of women with housing instability experience in South Brazil	1
Reimagining independence: Relational selves in the Korean disability justice movement	1
Who recounts the Stalinist past? Mnemonic roles, acts of remembering and life-scripts in Russian families	1
Extended family collaboration in childcare during the coronavirus disease-19 pandemic	1
Replace, absorb, serve: Data scientists talk about their aspired jurisdiction	1
The construction of dual ethnic identity among multi-ethnic adolescents	1
Political polarization and intimate distance: Negotiating family conflicts during a high-risk protest movement	1
Empathy in research process: Study of women in sex work in India	1
‘Weaponized volunteering’ and re-considering the volunteering-weaponization divide	1
Conflicting demands and emotional labour: Balancing and swapping at the front line of the welfare state	1
On a quest for social mobility: The high-risk educational strategies of Indian medical students in Georgia	1
Transactional pathways: Institutional possibilities for status and wealth under racial/caste capitalism	1
Comments on Suraj Yengde’s lecture	1
The winners of marketisation: Welfare profit-makers legitimising private profits in publicly funded welfare services	1
Youth and the consumption of credit	1
Aggravated commodification as a new dimension of precarity in platform economy	1
Together or apart? Doing biographical research and oral history in an interdisciplinary context	1
Remitting amid autocracy: Venezuelan migrant remittances to relatives enduring widespread structural violence	1
Anti-consumerism as a class practice: Parental investment in a private kindergarten in Israel	1
Voices of emergency: Imagined climate futures and forms of collective action	1
Weaponized volunteering: Where and whither	1
The diverging gender inequality across households: The case of Palestinian-Arab families in Israel	1
Settler colonialism and the archives of apprehension	1
The constitution of political contention: The case of protests and riots at the turn of the 19th century	1
Generative processes of social vulnerability to flood risk: A proposal for the strategic management of social impacts	1
Justifying contentious social and political claims using mundane language: An analysis of Canadian right-wing extremism	1
Do we need a posthumanist sociology? Notes from the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Creativity, transcendence, and social constellations	1
Reflections of a journal editor	1
The surviving power of Brahmin privilege	1
Mastering political time: China’s graduates in the quest for temporal sovereignty through civil service exam battles	1
Controlling precarious work through documents: The carteira de trabalho on the sugarcane plantations of Northeast Brazil	1
‘Very unsure of what’s to come’: Salon worker experiences of COVID-19 in Australia during 2020	1
On the emergence and changing positions of old-established groupings in migration contexts: A process perspective on group formation in Jordan	1